A single standardized literature textbook and choral singing in schools will help resist the machinations of the Evil One, Pavel Pozhigailo is convinced.
This is not a parody, nor a satirical column by Shenderovich (a Russian political satirist). It was a State Duma committee in session. I might not even have paid attention if the leader of this group of “politicians,” who want to defeat the Evil One through choral singing, were not my recurring heroine—the very example I use to explain what “illicit enrichment” means, against which we are collecting signatures.
Irina Yarovaya is the chair of the anti-corruption committee, the head of United Russia’s “patriotic platform,” and the owner of an apartment on Tverskaya Street, bought with 36 million rubles (about half a million U.S. dollars at the time) from an unknown source.
And the meeting was that very patriotic club of United Russia. Have a read, it’s quite something: there’s no end to the tricks these crooks will come up with to distract attention from their own shady dealings:
It’s striking, really. Any normal person reads this and understands: this is a gathering of idiots and crooks who are dangerous to society. But they are the ones in power in the country. So in a sense, everything is reversed. They are the normal ones, and normal people are the idiots.
In short, it’s all straight out of Orwell.